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Foundress of Nothing

Jen Graves and Dave Quigg•foundressofnothing.tumblr.com
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We’re married. We made a podcast. It’s about how one of us wanted the other one of us to read Middlemarch and now we’re finally reading it together. Basically, we looked at all the hot trends and determined this would be unstoppable clickbait.
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Episodes

Deaths mourned and unmourned

Death scenes felt safely abstract when we started making plans for this episode. Cancer crashed in, and Jen's Dad died weeks later. We return to talking about Middlemarch from the other side of loss.

Mar 11, 2018•28 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Fred Vincy needs therapy and sucks at apologizing

Links to stuff we mentioned: Jen’s 12/6/16 piece “Akio Takamori's Drawings and Sculptures of Men Apologizing” Nikole Hannah-Jones' brilliant This American Life episode about the persistence of school segregation and a district that accidentally desegregated: “The Problem We All Live With.” Jen got an email about “opportunity hoarding” and a book called Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools And of course ... Middlemarch , which is available for money wherever ...

Nov 28, 2017•27 min•Season 1Ep. 4

"Oh good. You got to the murder."

In which we use "In which ..." to begin an episode description for the last time. We also discuss whether George Eliot should have to be in a room with Donald Trump and why it's maybe a good thing to treat Middlemarch like a snack food.

Nov 15, 2017•26 min•Season 1Ep. 3

The jewelry scene

In which we misremember our vow to never again do an episode longer than 27 minutes as a vow to never again do an episode longer than 28 minutes.

Nov 13, 2017•28 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Nothing to do with Ruprecht

In which we find a title for the podcast by scouring the early chapters of Middlemarch for phrases to steal, and we vow never to make any future episodes longer than 27 minutes.

Oct 16, 2017•45 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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